On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No comment. Make your own opinion.
If it wasn't for the fact that I had just finished Chapter 12 of *The Age of
Turbulence*, this would be the most beautiful thing I had read this month.
No comment. Make your own opinion.
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From: Balarama Varanasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 12 April 2008 12:45:16 PM GMT+05:30
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [BCB] The lesser known aspects of kAmasutra and
panchatantra
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Hi friends:
Importan
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:08 AM, ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Unless older people who have "been there done that" can offer viable and
> attractive alternatives the young people will "understand" only after going
> through needless pain.
Interesting you should use the "old man" answer whil
On Tuesday 15 Apr 2008 9:40:25 am Gautam John wrote:
> to them, it's a trade-off that they are
> happy paying.
This is the problem IMO
Children, and young people (unmarried, less than 25) feel indestructible. In
India they are brought up to believe that their salaries are more than
adequate re
Deepa Mohan wrote, [on 4/15/2008 8:53 AM]:
This is probably why I am unable to entirely share the doomsday
viewsthat, and an optimism that there WILL be some self-regulation
before disaster actually strikes our planet.
Such as vhemt.org ?
Udhay
--
((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.
> much of the environmental and quality-of-life depredation that we see
> in Bangqlore today...Less malls, less cars, less homes would translate
> into less of damage.
I'd be tempted to agreeing with you if it were not for a conversation
I had this morning with a bunch of kids who work in the s
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:59 AM, ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > http://indiatoday.digitaltoday.in/content_mail.php?option=com_content&name=
> >print&id=6591
>
> Here are some thoughts I posted in my college alumni web forum. Thoughts
> sparked off by the article above and general conversati
There's an interesting piece on good governance here:
http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~drodrik/Thinking%20about%20governance.doc
"
A deep insight that has emerged out of the disappointments of the
Washington Consensus is that successful policy reform is at its core
governance reform. Reforms in t
http://wubi-installer.org/
" Wubi is a Ubuntu installer for Windows users that will bring you into the
Linux world with a single click. Wubi allows you to install and uninstall
Ubuntu as any other application. If you heard about Linux and Ubuntu, if you
wanted to try them but you were afraid, W
On Sunday 06 Apr 2008 5:02:31 pm Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
> The health impact of IT outsourcing in India isn't yet widely
> understood, but for anyone who's been through the mill it's really not
> news.
>
> Cheeni
>
> http://indiatoday.digitaltoday.in/content_mail.php?option=com_content&name=
>pri
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> most modern malthusians, such as the author of the excerpted text
> above, forget to do this; indeed, they take for granted that their
> pessimistic projections are based on correct premises, even though
> simi
On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 22:50 +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> By 2040, we would need to triple the global food supply in order to
> meet the basic food needs of the eleven billion people who are
> expected to be alive. But doing so would require a 1000 percent
> increase in the total energy expended in
On 4/14/08, Badri Natarajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> How do you design a bureaucracy that works? I've heard a lot of good
> things about Singaporean civil servants. Is the reputation justified? I
> believe they are very well paid..presumably that's one thing which sets
> them apart.
>
I
REQUIEM
by Jay Hanson, 02/20/98
http://www.dieoff.com/page181.htm
[snip]
What kind of future will our children have? Shortly after the year
2000, industrial activity will rise high enough for it to seriously
degrade land fertility. This will occur because of contamination by
heavy metals and persi
Not sure if anyone else enjoys the Desi OC video series on youtube but
episode 4 is out now
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QwyAjunz13g
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-ER9bMWaoMU
http://youtube.com/watch?v=R8heSiQz78c
Episode 4 at
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cxzU1z79vFA
Cheers!!
-Tarun
> work, and getting one is a matter of luck. It is otherwise designed for
> inefficiency, with all the incentives aligned towards government servants
> growing their own own power and budgets, instead of serving the people as
> intended by their job descriptions. Parkinson's Law etc...
>
This see
>
> There is usually a strong willed bureaucrat behind the scenes** making
> this possible.
>
That's the point. The system needs strong-willed bureaucrats for anything to
work, and getting one is a matter of luck. It is otherwise designed for
inefficiency, with all the incentives aligned towards g
On 14-Apr-08, at 5:31 PM, Amit Varma wrote:
I read it three years ago, and wrote a couple of paras on it in an
old piece
I wrote for WSJ [1]. From what I remember, the book does an
excellent job of
demonstrating how government works, with much first-person narrative
of the
problems Shourie h
>
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anybody read this book [1]? Can you do a review here, please?
>
I read it three years ago, and wrote a couple of paras on it in an old piece
I wrote for WSJ [1]. From what I remember, the book does an excellent j
>
> Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate for one.
>
Pinker's "The Blank Slate" draws on Judith Harris's "The Nurture
Assumption": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nurture_Assumption . Both are
excellent books.
--
Amit Varma
http://www.indiauncut.com
Charles Haynes wrote, [on 4/11/2008 8:33 PM]:
My wife
and kids live in a relatively rural area of California that is very
conservative politically, and my son didn't make himself popular when
he would argue that the war in Iraq was a terrible mistake and that
George Bush was an idiot.
It appea
Charles Haynes wrote, [on 4/11/2008 8:33 PM]:
Neither my experience, nor my wife's experience in US public schools
was particularly positive. Being bright, interested, inquisitive, and
energetic is often discouraged, sometimes forcefully, by your "peers."
For those who want to be profoundly de
Has anybody read this book [1]? Can you do a review here, please?
Udhay
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Governance-Sclerosis-That-Has-Set/dp/8129105241
http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,2271578,00.html
Inky fingers
Red and green should never be seen
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